poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on An Afternoon Walk by Dovina.

richa10 Nov 2004

The excessive use of unsubstantiated aphorisms is a bad thing. This is a valuable lesson and hardly deserves such a mock offended reply (and more aphorisms). When I read aphorisms in poems it reminds me of political language. I can never be sure whether the writer understands what he is saying let alone whether he has any depth of understanding of what he is saying.